Anyone who salvages a road-killed deer, elk, antelope, or moose will be required to remove the entire animal from where it is found. Parts or viscera cannot be left on site. The salvaged animal must be used for one's own consumption and cannot be donated to others, used for bait or pet food.

Don't let Johnny Law catch you sharing that delicious road kill with your date, she has to run down her own. It's the law.

SundaesChild:Will this lead to people intentionally running down animals so they can collect their carcasses to eat? Like a new form of hunting?

Surprised they are just enacting it now. A lot of states have had this policy for years. Around here, for example, the responding LEO likely has a list of people to call in his pocket in the event the person who hits a deer doesn't want it. He can write the permit to whomever wants the carcass. The deer around here are really good (Ohio farm country) so if part of it is in good shape after being hit (especially if the LEO has to shoot it) there's no sense in letting that go to waste. It's not that big of a deal and no, nobody wants that kind of damage to their vehicle, or risk of injury, but a good size deer could help make up for your impending deducible payment.

OregonVet:SundaesChild: Will this lead to people intentionally running down animals so they can collect their carcasses to eat? Like a new form of hunting?

Surprised they are just enacting it now. A lot of states have had this policy for years. Around here, for example, the responding LEO likely has a list of people to call in his pocket in the event the person who hits a deer doesn't want it. He can write the permit to whomever wants the carcass. The deer around here are really good (Ohio farm country) so if part of it is in good shape after being hit (especially if the LEO has to shoot it) there's no sense in letting that go to waste. It's not that big of a deal and no, nobody wants that kind of damage to their vehicle, or risk of injury, but a good size deer could help make up for your impending deducible payment.

This.My girlfriend's kids have won the moose roadkill lottery in Alaska. I would have thought that Montana already did this.

wiredroach:Russ1642: You hit a moose and usually its antlers get stuffed into you, and it gets stuffed into your car. Methinks Subby has never been close to a full grown moose before.

You'd be wrong, and it depends on what you hit the moose with....

Hit a moose with a car and its body will go right through the windshield. They often kill the front two passengers. Hit them at highway speed and they'll go out the back window. It's basically a thousand pounds suspended five to six feet off the ground on stilts. Very dangerous for cars.

Russ1642:Hit a moose with a car and its body will go right through the windshield. They often kill the front two passengers. Hit them at highway speed and they'll go out the back window. It's basically a thousand pounds suspended five to six feet off the ground on stilts. Very dangerous for cars.

That's why when I go hunting down moose on wheels, I have my plow on the front of it. With spikes.

Russ1642:wiredroach: Russ1642: You hit a moose and usually its antlers get stuffed into you, and it gets stuffed into your car. Methinks Subby has never been close to a full grown moose before.

You'd be wrong, and it depends on what you hit the moose with....

Hit a moose with a car and its body will go right through the windshield. They often kill the front two passengers. Hit them at highway speed and they'll go out the back window. It's basically a thousand pounds suspended five to six feet off the ground on stilts. Very dangerous for cars.

A friend of mine has an old WWII-era M8 Greyhound, I don't think it would be terribly damaged by hitting a moose at full speed.

/though getting the blood out of the driver's periscope would be a biatch...

Russ1642:wiredroach: Russ1642: You hit a moose and usually its antlers get stuffed into you, and it gets stuffed into your car. Methinks Subby has never been close to a full grown moose before.

You'd be wrong, and it depends on what you hit the moose with....

Hit a moose with a car and its body will go right through the windshield. They often kill the front two passengers. Hit them at highway speed and they'll go out the back window. It's basically a thousand pounds suspended five to six feet off the ground on stilts. Very dangerous for cars.

That's my point; it depends what you hit them with. I had a friend hit a horse with his Jeep Cherokee at speed and my friend walked away unscathed, and a horse is about the size of a moose. Yeah, in a car you may end up wearing the moose for a Snuggie if you hit it head on, but then again they're so tall you may just clip its legs and have the carcass pass completely over you.

OregonVet:SundaesChild: Will this lead to people intentionally running down animals so they can collect their carcasses to eat? Like a new form of hunting?

Surprised they are just enacting it now. A lot of states have had this policy for years. Around here, for example, the responding LEO likely has a list of people to call in his pocket in the event the person who hits a deer doesn't want it. He can write the permit to whomever wants the carcass. The deer around here are really good (Ohio farm country) so if part of it is in good shape after being hit (especially if the LEO has to shoot it) there's no sense in letting that go to waste. It's not that big of a deal and no, nobody wants that kind of damage to their vehicle, or risk of injury, but a good size deer could help make up for your impending deducible payment.

My dad hit two deer one fall. Had to pay for a new deepfreeze to put it in AND two deductibles. We ate good that year though.